Glossop 247-7 Cheetham Hill 250-5

Glossop were beaten at Cheetham Hill on Saturday having hoped to continue their winning ways.

Glossop won the toss and skipper, Wilson, elected to bat first, but it was the hosts who took the early initiative by dismissing both Pennington and Dyson before the visitors made it to 20.

Pennington was bowled by a full, straight delivery and Dyson edged a rising delivery on its way through to the wicketkeeper to reduce Glossop to 17-2.

Bates and Perera started a revival, compiling a partnership of 72 before Bates was trapped LBW off the bowling of Ali.

Wilson followed soon after; offering a return catch to the same bowler, which left Glossop struggling somewhat at 96-4.

The previous week, Perera and Moss spearheaded the Glossop recovery with the bat and this week was no different as they took the score to 171 before Moss was out four shy of a half-century.

Perera, chasing his third century in four innings, was next to depart, caught for 84 attempting to guide the ball to the vacant third man boundary to leave Glossop 196-6.

Stopford (31) and Harwick (34 not out) then provided the away side with the acceleration that they needed, propelling Glossop to 247-7 at the end of their allotted 50 overs.

The hosts set about their response with customary aggression with a flurry of early boundaries, but Usher grabbed three wickets with the score on 22, 33 and 44 respectively.

There was a period of rebuilding for the hosts before Harwick claimed the fourth wicket with score on 86.

With the entrance of the Cheetham Hill paid-man, Butt, the hosts started to control the pace of the game, which slowly began to slip away from Glossop.

Butt and Raza added 179 to all but take the game away from the fielding team.

They both approached their respective innings in a measured manner, yet both punished any vagrancy in line or length with the utmost severity.

Both batsmen did offer one chance each, but when they were spurned, the outcome of the game became clearer.

Raza was bowled for 96 with his team needing only two runs to win, leaving Butt (88 not out) to strike the winning runs with six deliveries remaining.